Apple Podcast Rankings - USA - Documentary

Discover the Top 100 Podcasts in USA

Explore the latest data-driven rankings of the top 100 podcasts in USA. Our comprehensive analysis covers the best Apple Podcasts across various categories, providing insights into the most popular shows, episode lengths, publication frequencies, and leading hosting services. Whether you're a podcast creator or an avid listener, find the top-ranked podcasts that everyone is tuning into right now.

Podcast charts from 06 Oct 2025

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10/06/2025

Average data

Episodes: 218

Frequency: every 248 days

Duration: 00:48:18

Top 5 authors

1. iHeartPodcasts (4 shows)

2. BBC (2 shows)

3. The New York Times (2 shows)

4. pepe&chema (2 shows)

5. Tortoise Media (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Megaphone (20 shows)

2. Omny Studio (14 shows)

3. Acast (13 shows)

4. Simplecast (10 shows)

5. Spreaker (7 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Curse of: America’s Next Top Model	iHeartPodcasts and Glass Podcasts	Society & Culture	18	Omny Studio	58
2	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	115	Spreaker	84
3	The Turning - Seasons 1, 2 & 3	iHeartPodcasts and Rococo Punch	Society & Culture	42	Omny Studio	63
4	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	937	Simplecast	38
5	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
6	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	302	Megaphone	42
7	Something Was Wrong	Broken Cycle Media	True Crime	377	Audioboom	62
8	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	489	Megaphone	63
9	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	349	ART19	68
10	Thunder Bay	Canadaland	Society & Culture	12	Acast	63
11	The Commune	Stuff Audio	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	63
12	Next Question with Katie Couric	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	432	Omny Studio	63
13	Law Enforcement Talk: True Crime and Trauma Stories	John "Jay" Wiley	Society & Culture	605	Omny Studio	59
14	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	93	Acast	79
15	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	23	American Public Media	62
16	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	431	Megaphone	32
17	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	140	Megaphone	68
18	Creepy Shit	Creepy Shit	Society & Culture	72	Audioboom	58
19	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	98	BBC	53
20	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
21	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
22	The Powers of Darkness Podcast	Or Whatever Movies	Society & Culture	7	Libsyn	58
23	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	170	BBC	38
24	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
25	5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan	Andrew Callaghan	Society & Culture	31	Buzzsprout	38
26	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
27	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
28	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	211	Megaphone	38
29	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
30	Reflector	Longview	Society & Culture	32	Megaphone	48
31	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1188	Acast	59
32	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	162	Acast	69
33	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	188	PRX	79
34	Careless \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	120	Acast	73
35	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	54	PRX	64
36	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	22	Buzzsprout	42
37	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
38	Campus Files: Scandals, Secrets & Crimes at American Universities	Audacy	Society & Culture	93	WideOrbit	68
39	Skyline Drive: How to Live Forever	iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	22	Omny Studio	68
40	JFK The Enduring Secret	Jeff Crudele	Society & Culture	397	Buzzsprout	83
41	Sasquatch Odyssey	Sasquatch Odyssey-Bigfoot Encounters	Society & Culture	766	Spreaker	64
42	Our American Stories	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	2004	Omny Studio	43
43	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	79
44	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	3	ART19	63
45	Latino USA	My Cultura, Futuro and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	699	Omny Studio	53
46	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	48	RedCircle	73
47	Jungle Prince	The New York Times	Society & Culture	3	Simplecast	63
48	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
49	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	263	Spreaker	69
50	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
51	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	279	Megaphone	43
52	Surviving El Chapo: The Twins Who Brought Down A Drug Lord	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	26	Omny Studio	63
53	The Whispering Woods : Real Life Ghost & Paranormal Stories	True, Scary, Paranormal, Folklore and Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	635	Acast	69
54	The Haunted Objects Podcast	Planet Weird	Society & Culture	33	Megaphone	62
55	Everyone Has An Ex	Mamamia Podcasts	Society & Culture	96	Omny Studio	89
56	Belief Hole \| Paranormal, Mysteries and Other Tasty Thought Snacks	SpectreVision Radio	Society & Culture	155	Megaphone	63
57	MimmPodcast \| پادکست میم	مهدی عباسی	Society & Culture	56	Spreaker	68
58	The Corrymeela Podcast	Corrymeela	Society & Culture	43	Squarespace	58
59	pepe&chema podcast	pepe&chema	Society & Culture	205	Megaphone	32
60	The Agent	Imperative Entertainment	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	59
61	Prometheus Lens	Justin Brown	Society & Culture	555	Spreaker	74
62	BioHacked: Family Secrets	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	48
63	Relatos Forenses Podcast	pepe&chema	Society & Culture	265	Megaphone	32
64	Weight For It	ohitsBigRon Studios	Society & Culture	25	PRX	84
65	Radio Marz \| پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز	Marzie	Society & Culture	91	Acast	52
66	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	697	Megaphone	53
67	Boomtown	Imperative Entertainment and Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	64
68	Scene on Radio	Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University	Society & Culture	140	PRX	59
69	Classical Music Happy Hour	WNYC, WQXR	Music	27	Simplecast	63
70	The Lodge	RNZ	Society & Culture	10	Acast	83
71	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	87	Libsyn	62
72	Sounds Wild	Mike Stark, Vanessa Barchfield	Society & Culture	7	Simplecast	63
73	Stolen Lives True Crime	Stolen Lives True Crime	Society & Culture	292	Audioboom	58
74	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
75	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
76	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	188	Ximalaya	53
77	The Improvement Association	Serial Productions & The New York Times	Society & Culture	7	Simplecast	58
78	This Haunted Life	Adam Berry	Society & Culture	14	Transistor	79
79	Be Amazed	Be Amazed	Society & Culture	491	RedCircle	43
80	The Brohio Podcast	Aliens, Conspiracy Theories, Paranormal, Famous Murders, Cryptozoology, Strange Occurrences, Monsters, UFOs, True Crime, Demons, Occult, Urban Legends, Comedy	Society & Culture	522	Spreaker	43
81	How I Survived	That's Life!	Society & Culture	42	Omny Studio	53
82	Las Raras	Las Raras	Society & Culture	50	Libsyn	89
83	Uintah Basin High Strangeness	V6 Media	Society & Culture	6	Podbean	52
84	An Arm and a Leg	An Arm and a Leg	Society & Culture	170	Omny Studio	89
85	Symptomatic: A Medical Mystery Podcast	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	46	Omny Studio	48
86	Outlawed	Beverly Gray & Jonas Swartz	Society & Culture	27	Buzzsprout	63
87	On Assignment	Reuters	Society & Culture	51	Megaphone	53
88	Art Bell Back in Time	Art Bell Back in Time	Society & Culture	3	Spotify for Podcasters	53
89	The Loop	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	7	PRX	64
90	All My Relations Podcast	Matika Wilbur & Temryss Lane	Society & Culture	77	Buzzsprout	62
91	Odessa	The New York Times	Society & Culture	4	Simplecast	73
92	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
93	JAXXON PODCAST	Jaxxon Podcast	Society & Culture	353	Spotify for Podcasters	38
94	How To Destroy Everything	HTDE \| QCODE	Society & Culture	44	Megaphone	53
95	Top Comment	BBC	News	97	BBC	48
96	First America	Pushkin Industries	History	33	Omny Studio	63
97	Hooked on Freddie	Wondery	Society & Culture	9	ART19	59
98	On podcast پادکست آن	mersen	Society & Culture	53	Simplecast	52
99	Thrilling Threads - Conspiracy Theories, Strange Phenomena, True Crime, Unsolved Mysteries, etc!	Byte & Pieces	Society & Culture	1000	Spreaker	79
100	Radio Diaries	Radio Diaries & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	271	PRX	43

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in USA

The podcast landscape in USA is constantly evolving, with new shows emerging and established ones climbing the ranks. Our data reveals intriguing trends in podcasting, such as the average number of episodes produced, typical episode lengths, and the most consistent publication schedules. These insights can help listeners find their next favorite podcast and give creators a deeper understanding of what resonates with their audience.

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